Re: [ANN] Organize 1.1 now in App Store

2021-09-10 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Just downloaded it and will give it a look. When you get around to the iPad- please sync through iCloud. It’s the Apple way and works seamlessly for so many apps I have. I even have my LC prefs and plug-ins on iCloud so that they are accessible everywhere easily. Kelly Sent from an iDevice

Re: New(?) Idea for Standalones

2021-03-29 Thread Dev via use-livecode
No Roger, the folder has nothing to do with it. The two right click process will work wherever you unzip the new arrival. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2021, at 5:54 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thanks for your kind offer, Alex, but I think the process of opening an >

Re: New(?) Idea for Standalones

2021-03-28 Thread Dev via use-livecode
If it works, the upside is that anyone can do it themselves and coach their family into doing the two step process once on the first time install. If it doesn’t work, we need to get a real developer to make a real app that jumps through Apple’s hoops. And then the developer has to keep it

Re: New(?) Idea for Standalones

2021-03-28 Thread Dev via use-livecode
; I feel bad that you guys are sticking with me to no avail. Saving it first to > Downloads or Desktop does not work. > > Sorry to be such a bother, > > Roger > >> On Mar 28, 2021, at 4:26 PM, Dev via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Agreed. Save to

Re: New(?) Idea for Standalones

2021-03-28 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Agreed. Save to the desktop and then try the right click Open command. Kelly Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 28, 2021, at 5:04 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode > wrote: > > I think the “attachment” is part of the issue. Save to downloads first? > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 28, 2021,

Re: New(?) Idea for Standalones

2021-03-27 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Roger On your wife’s machine - if you right click the app and choose Open from the context menu, do you get more options about opening? If you adjust settings in the Security and Privacy System Preferences can you downgrade standards to allow a one time opening? If neither of these work, then

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.2 RC-3

2021-03-15 Thread Dev via use-livecode
I am also seeing that with a Mac Pro laptop, Big Sur and two monitors. Sometimes it will be responsive on a second try restart, but then it won’t let me open the script of an object. Impossible to work with so I went back to RC-2. Kelly Janz > On 15 Mar, 2021, at 10:40 AM, Håkan Liljegren via

Re: SSL cPanel mySql setup

2020-10-19 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Hi Richard Since I have been on DreamHost for more than a decade, I would love to have something like this set up. I’m not too proficient with Terminal or Linux, but can follow instructions. I would love to know if there is a crib sheet or step by step or tutorial that I could follow to get an

Re: The iOS "Files" folder

2020-10-12 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Apple is pushing everything to be saved to iCloud, so a properly written school app (by Apple standards!) would have all the school assignments in the student’s iCloud - accessible at home or school or wherever you have net access. Kelly > On 12Oct, 2020, at 4:09 PM, John Balgenorth via

Re: Contesting for Idiot du Jour

2020-09-02 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Me again Jerry Changed the setup so that the pellets landing outside the big circle were ignored and just kept going until I had 1000 within the circles in a completely random pattern without Trig. Now the ratio in the smaller circle is 25% or ¼ like the area comparison would suggest. You do

Re: Contesting for Idiot du Jour

2020-09-02 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Hi Jerry I just tried that because I’m no math wizard and need to see things. When shooting a random shotgun blast of 1000 pellets into the centre of a target square that contained the large circle and small circles, the ratio worked out to around 0.2 - not 0.25. It seems the corners outside

Re: Big Sur issues

2020-08-26 Thread Dev via use-livecode
I tried to build a stand alone to my desktop under Big Sur, but my Mac would not let me because of permissions or provisions or some other such new restriction (I haven’t paid my $99, so I’m not a real Dev as far as Apple is concerned) so I went back to Catalina and everything worked. Sent

The Apple Ecosystem

2020-08-19 Thread Dev via use-livecode
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/8/18/app-stores I DON’T want to restart the flame war, but this post (long, but very informative & thoughtful) seems to me to shed light on all sides of the arguments around the App Store issues. He cuts through some of the rhetoric and a lot of the

Re: ProtonMail vs Apple

2020-08-04 Thread Dev via use-livecode
It may feel like a monopoly because Apple takes 80% of the profits in the overall field of mobile apps. Generally, Android users don’t pay for apps, iOS users will. So a choice to NOT develop for iOS has some severe economic consequences that a developer has to think about. There are many

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Presentation yesterday made a point of saying that apps DID NOT have to go through the Mac App Store. It will probably be like Catalina where the OS will warn, but there is an unobtrusive Open button that will let you run anything you want. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2020, at 1:22 PM,

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Time to learn Swift and SwiftUI Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2020, at 1:44 PM, Richmond via use-livecode > wrote: > > A plastic bath-toy that dumbs everything down for the fashionistas and rich, > slack-jawed morons. > > Vrey sad indeed. > >> On 23.06.20 22:36, Stephen Barncard via

Re: Chromebook apps?

2020-06-22 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Then we are going to need to get Frazier back with Apple’s new all in commitment to ARM chips! kelly > On 22-Jun-2020, at 1:17 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > John McKenzie wrote: > >> Could you not just deploy a Linux desktop Livecode app to a >> Chromebook? ChromeOS is a

Re: "Set filename of image" does nothing if the file name has not changed.

2020-06-19 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Sounds like a caching issue in the engine. Following your recipe, I get the same results on a Catalina Mac with 9.6.0 and 9.0.5 (the two builds I have access too. In fact, I have two graphics - original and defaced, with the same file name, but one in .jpg format and the other in .png format,

Re: Sad truth about iOS apps

2020-05-17 Thread Dev via use-livecode
No problems on two machines here with Catalina and Mail. Sent from my iPhone > On May 17, 2020, at 1:32 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode > wrote: > > There is a consistent tale (more than a rumour, I think) that Catalina can > mess up some people's mail messages, if you use Apple Mail.

Re: Sad truth about iOS apps

2020-05-15 Thread Dev via use-livecode
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5=34097 Some other potential solutions from the forums > > On May 15, 2020 at 10:03 AM, (mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com)> wrote: > > > > As many of you will know, I have been struggling to create

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 RC-1

2020-05-11 Thread Dev via use-livecode
It’s the semicolon. My eye tripped on that too. Update Xcode yourself via Apple. Best practice seems to recommend keeping the older files in a separate folder. > > On May 11, 2020 at 12:55 PM, (mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com)> wrote: > >

Re: Even Distribution

2020-04-16 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Since you would probably have long trips and short trips, I would try and allocate on an estimated time to complete basis so that all were busy for about the same time. > On 16-Apr-2020, at 8:23 PM, Skip Kimpel via use-livecode > wrote: > > I have 15 "jobs" that need to be assigned to 7

Re: A short question about Xcode

2020-04-16 Thread Dev via use-livecode
I feel for you Ralph. My general solution is that it is time for my wife to get a new computer - ie pass on my old one. Pain in the neck and so on, but it doesn’t happen too often. I don’t know how old yours is, but I usually get 5-6 years out of a Mac laptop, and that means my $$$/yr stays in

Re: Apps to fight COVID-19

2020-04-11 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Countdown of the hours left in purgatory? > On Apr 11, 2020, at 12:32 PM, Mark Smith via use-livecode > wrote: > > What would it be designed to help you with? > >> On Apr 11, 2020, at 4:51 PM, dsc--- via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> App idea: 14 days of self-quarantine >> >> On Apr

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

2020-04-09 Thread Dev via use-livecode
This IS for parity. When Apple announced this at WWDC last year, the pitch was that IF you chose to allow Google or Facebook signin THEN you had to add Apple signin on the top of the other two logos. If you didn’t have any preferential signin then you didn’t need to change anything. As a user,

Re: HyperCard: the Myst story

2020-02-11 Thread dev via use-livecode
https://publicdomain4u.com/as-of-january-1-2019-these-robert-frost-poems-are-public-domain/ > On Feb 11, 2020, at 2:56 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode > wrote: > > Personally I have a pet project to re-purpose a very elaborate CD-ROM about > Robert Frost, published by Henry Holt in 1997,

Re: Import SVG with Multi-Path and Two colors

2020-01-01 Thread dev via use-livecode
Aloha Swami, Noticed a bit of garbage in the previous code. This one’s better. Cheers -dd ——— http://www.w3.org/2000/svg; viewBox="0 0 1000 1000"> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Import SVG with Multi-Path and Two colors

2020-01-01 Thread dev via use-livecode
Aloha Swami, Does this work for you? ———Code-- http://www.w3.org/2000/svg; viewBox="0 0 1000 1000"> ———End-Code—— Cheers, Debdoot > On Dec 31, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > > I

Merry Christmas and Happy Blockchain Year

2017-12-24 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Merry Christmas List, Wish you all Happy Holidays and all the nice stuff. 2018 is the year when we finally break free… of the tyranny. Cheers, Debdoot PS. If anyone is working on or interested in working on the blockchain, please feel free to email me.